SCOTIA — Packets of heroin and loaded handgun with its serial number removed were among the finds in a car stopped for speeding Wednesday night in Scotia, village police said.

Shortly after 10 p.m., officers stopped Mikisha Brown, 22, of Forest Road, Schenectady, for driving 52 mph in a 30 mph zone south along North Ballston Avenue (Route 50) in her 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt, Chief Peter Frisoni said in a press release.

Officers smelled marijuana coming from the car and saw the drug on the rear seat next to a passenger, Virgilio Smith, 18, of Duane Avenue, Schenectady, Frisoni said.

Smith was found to have a loaded handgun with its serial number removed, and officers also discovered 70 packets of heroin inside the car, Frisoni said.

Brown and a front seat passenger, 22-year-old Daiquan Gaskins of Brooklyn, were each charged with the felonies of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fourth degrees, and the violation of unlawful possession of marijuana.

Smith was charged with the same offenses, as well as the felonies of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees.

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All were arraigned in Village Court and sent to the Schenectady County Jail on bail.